The End

Assemblage, 2024

The End plays with the familiar iconography of the Looney Tunes “That’s All Folks,” cartoon ending. Here, “The End” becomes a mildly threatening statement and battle cry. This work isn’t just about drawing a full stop or marking something as completed—it’s about the finality of an ending without thought for what comes after.

When folk crafts are extinguished by systems that seek to monetise, the voices that made them are very easily lost to time. The End stands as an act of defiance against that erasure. It’s a statement—it calls time on a system that doesn’t care for real stories, only how they can be exploited for profit.

Craft was never a ‘leisure pursuit’; it was a way to embellish existence with meaning and resilience. The end spells the consequences of a culture now based on quick disposable fixes instead of looking after things and nurturing talent.